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The excitement is building – who will be the winners at the 14th FOCAL International Awards celebrating all that is best in the footage and commercial audio-visual industry?

Putting Footage in the Spotlight…

Finalists for the 14th annual FOCAL International Awards include some of the highest-profile productions released around the world in 2016 including Ron Howard’s crowd-pleaser, The Beatles: Eight Days a Week – The Touring Years; Werner Herzog’s other worldly Into the Inferno; O.J.: Made in America; and restoration of Abel Gance’s masterpiece epic, Napoleon.

Set to take place on 25th May, 2017 at the Lancaster London Hotel, the FOCAL International Awards recognise producers, directors, researchers and other creative media professionals for excellence in the use and preservation of stock and archival footage.

Sixteen awards will be presented in total, including the Lifetime Achievement Award, won this year by pioneering producer-director Serge Viallet. In a career spanning almost thirty years, Serge has worked with multiple archives across the world on many award-winning and meticulously crafted documentaries. He has been lecturing on archive documentation, research and use in film at Sorbonne University since 2012.

TICKETS FOR THE FOCAL INTERNATIONAL AWARDS CEREMONY THURSDAY 25TH MAY MUST BE BOOKED BY FRIDAY 19TH MAY.

TICKETS ARE SELLING FAST, come join us for the glitzy pre-reception and enjoy a Shutterstock Cocktail before the three-course dinner, followed by the Awards ceremony and take advantage of the networking opportunities of the after party over a few drinks.

Best Use of Footage in a History FeatureSponsored by LoLa Clips
* Letters From Baghdad – Letters From Baghdad Ltd / Between the Rivers Productions LLC (USA/UK/France)
* School Revolution 1918-1939 – Les Films Du Poisson (France)
* The Tragedy of the International Brigades – Kuiv Productions (France)

Best Use of Footage in a Music Production
Sponsored by Shutterstock
* The Beatles: Eight Days a Week – The Touring Years – White Horse Pictures and Imagine Entertainment (USA/UK)
* The People’s History Of Pop – 7Wonder Productions (UK)
* Tom Jones’ 1950s: The Decade that made me – BBC Music Television (UK)

Best Use of Sports Footage
Sponsored by ITV Sport Archive
* 1966: A Nation Remembers – Blakeway North Television (UK)
* George Best: All by Himself – Fine Point Films (UK)
* O.J: Made in America – ESPN Films and Laylow Films (USA)

Best use of Footage about the Natural World
Sponsored by Nature Picture Library
* America’s National Parks at 100 – Smithsonian Channel (USA)
* Into the Inferno – Spring Films and Werner Herzog Film (UK/Germany)
* Zoo Quest in Colour – BBC Natural History Unit (UK)